Former MTSU baseball coach John Stanford posted a 402-272-4 record while winning four OVC championships and five Southern Division titles.

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Justin Beasley
| Gannett Tennessee

On a day Middle Tennessee State sports stepped into a new era, it said goodbye to a pair of its past greats.

Former baseball coach and athletics director John Stanford, 77, died Monday morning as the Blue Raiders officially entered Conference USA. He was preceded in death by former basketball standout Tim Sisneros, 59, who died Friday.

"We are all saddened at the loss of two of our beloved and most popular Hall of Famers in John Stanford and Tim Sisneros," said Jim Simpson, MTSU historian and Blue Raider varsity club director. "They both represented the university with class and tremendous ...